De Ja Vu

Last October on about the 25th, his birthday weekend, Alex fell out of the tree and broke both his wrist. The left one was put into a cast and the right one was left in a brace. Well as you can tell by the photos I used as my background he was in a cast well after Christmas. I believe he got the cast of right around the new year. Well it has been almost a year and unfortunately history decided to repeat itself. Although this time he did not fall out of a tree and thankfully it is not both wrist; he did break his left wrist again! This happened on Wednesday when he was practicing for football. We were checking it out because one of his friends plays and both Nathan and Alex have wanted to play now. So we go and honestly I was a little concerned. All the boys are like twice Nathan and Alex's size, and it is tackle football! Well I put my concerns aside because they really want to play. Neither one of them have been cleared to play by the doctor; they are suppose to have physicals! So honestly they should not have been playing, but it is just practice right. Well Alex's coach decided to put him in as a Defensive Back to block this kid that was twice his size. Mind you Alex is in street clothes and this other kid is in his full uniform! So, he pushes Alex around pretty good a couple of times knocking him on his butt pretty hard. Alex was a trooper and kept getting back up and kept trying to block this kid. Well on about the third knock down Alex fell on his wrist and was hurt. We ended up going home and I iced him up and gave him motrin. I kept an eye on it and put him in his brace for school on Thursday; the whole time debating on whether to take him in to have it Xrayed! Well finally on Friday after talking with the coach, I decided we better get it looked at. Sure enough he has a buckle fracture of his left wrist and will be getting another cast! It should take about 6-8 weeks to heal which will put him right around his birthday!

Life from Behind

Life seems to like to sneaks up on us from behind and says, "Here I am!" We always think wow where did the time go, where did this month go, where did this year go; anyone who has kids especially understands this. They just grow so fast right before our eyes and before we know it we are asking where did it all go! I have been experiencing this from day one with Luke. He is just growing up so fast.
One day he is so little and we are holding him then in a blink of an eye it seems he is running out the door just like his big brothers! He loves to be outside and anytime someone is going out he is right on their heels ready to go! Every Friday we go to the park and he just loves to exlore and check everything out! It is so fun to watch him and wonder where does it all go. Time flies when you are having fun and we are always having fun with Luke!

Thirty Something

Turning thirty-two this year was one of my best birthdays to date. I had a hard time with turning thirty mainly because at the same time my son was turning twelve! Now, I am over the age thing! I had a great birthday this year and I know there are going to be more to come. Well my birthday started off on Wednesday with my work having a brunch for me and my boss giving me a gift! On my actual birthday which was Thursday August 21st, my girlfriends from church all treated me to dinner/dessert at the Cheesecake Factory. They surprised me when the waiter and waiteress brought out our desserts with the picture above and a serende of Happy Birthday! Friday I recieved many birthday wishes from the ladies at my Breastfeeding group and then on Saturday evening my husband treated me to a wonderful dinner! We went to a Japanese resturant in Roseville where they cook the food right at your table! It was a lot of fun and really good food! After dinner we went miniture golfing! I had a great birthday and I want to thank everyone that made it special. Especially my mom for watching Luke for us while we went out! My husband for watching Luke and the boys while I went out with my girlfriends and of course all my girlfriends for treating me to the best Cheesecake ever!!!!

Stuffed Duck

For his birthday Luke got a duck that he could stuff all by himself! I was not sure if he could do it or would even be interested, but he was! So we sat down and made his duck. He put the stuffing in and got to put a little star inside of the duck
that he was suppose to make a wish on and then we filled out the birth certificate! Since he knows that ducks say Quack Quack that is what we named his duck!
He was very proud of it when it was all done! I know this won't be the last duck he gets even though I know my husband wishes it was, but I am hoping it will be the end of the duck phase. We are ready to move on to big boy things!

Brush Your Teeth

Luke loves to brush his teeth. We have made this a routine and he even knows where to put his tooth brush when he is all done. He is so smart! He is getting to where he will walk to the changing table when he needs to be changed, he will walk to his crib when he is ready for bed and he walks to his high chair when he is ready to eat! Here are some pictures of him brushing his teeth!

Our Futrue Rock Star

Luke is quite the music lover. Everything that has music he will listen to and bop his little head to. He likes all kinds of music, rock, Christian, Country and of course lullabies! So yesterday my husband was listening to music on the computer and Nathan brought out his guitar to play along to the music; next thing we know Luke is wanting to play on the guitar too! I had Nathan let him hold it to see what he would do! I had put his hair up in a mohawk before all this, so it was quite fitting!

Summer Ends

Well tomorrow the boys go back to school. It has been a long summer and although they say they are not ready; I know that I am! They are starting to fight more with each other too, so that tells me that they are ready. So ready or not tomorrow Alex starts 6th grade and Nathan starts 8th. I feel a little bad because I cannot afford to send them to school with new clothes and school supplies. We are going to make do with what we have for now. This is going to be an interesting school year for Alex because over the summer we took him off the medication that he has been on for "ADHD"

and with complete Faith and belief in our Lord Jesus we are believing that he is healed and does not need this medication! He is going to be able to stay focused and concentrate because he has the power of a praying mommy on his side and more importantly he has Jesus in his heart and that is all he needs! On that note, we will be keeping everyone up to date on how it goes and I will close with some pictures of their last day of swimming lessons which was last week!